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...group's parent organization is the League for Industrial Democracy, a non-profit educational group with headquarters in New York...
...U.A.W. retreated. President Walter Reuther protested that he had not seen the leaflet before publication, ordered distribution stopped. Solidarity went on the presses with a windy editorial offering regrets for any "misinterpretation." An A.F.L.-C.I.O. spokesman divorced the parent union from the leaflet: "It's a U.A.W. baby, and that's it." Solidarity Managing Editor Henry Santiestevan glumly admitted to a tactical error: "There were other ways we could have gotten Nixon...
...sole end and purpose of all production," said Economist Adam Smith, is the consumer. Last week U.S. business, watching the consumer like a hopeful but apprehensive parent, might have varied Adam Smith's dictum to read that the U.S. consumer is the master key to what will happen to production-and how much will be sold-in the months ahead. What business saw was a consumer growing steadily more cautious about his purchases, but still buying at a rate that is helping to steady the economy...
...Take It Easy, Fellas." The U.A.W. and its parent Michigan A.F.L.-C.I.O. (membership: 800,000) decline to say how much money they are devoting to the cause of John Swainson and John Kennedy. There are no legal limits to their spending for the virtuous civic activity of getting out the vote. In big Macomb County, for example, the union voter-recruiting army bulges into hundreds, and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. pays a bounty of 40? for every new voter. The goal is 40,000 voters, which would cost the union $16,000. On Election Day the A.F.L.-C.I.O. will pay thousands...
...last year, the chemical industry's sales rose 14.7%, even though prices were lower than in 1952. To compete, Farben successors have put in new production techniques, developed new products, and effected operating efficiencies that enable them to produce twice as much with 145,000 workers as the parent firm did with...